Issue 2024.01

The Big Picture

A bear with a trout in it's mouth, breaking guts with its teeth.
© Amy Gulick  Salmon are a life force nourishing bears, birds, marine mammals, people, insects, and even trees.

What Photographers Can Learn from Fish

Words and Images by Amy Gulick

Buried in winter nests of gravel in clear cool streams, fertilized salmon eggs are ready to hatch. Wiggling embryos release an enzyme, which causes the egg membrane to break. The newborns, called alevins, are about the size of a thumbnail. Alevins retain the egg’s yolk sac as a nutrient-rich lunch bag that provides the developing fish with food.

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